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Loie Fuller

Description: Image of an angel with a large artist's palette for wings hovering in the sky above an older man with a white beard wearing a top hat and tails.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1895
Call number: priJLC_ART_003234
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Binner Engraving Co. Fisher Building Chicago

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Image of an advertisement for Binner Printing Company of Chicago, Illinois; a small child wearing only a headband rides on the back of a large swimming fish, holding a palm frond aloft on one hand and an artist's palette and brushes in the other; image of the Fisher Building on a busy commercial street corner in Chicago inset at top right.

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The days of auld lang syne

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Image of an advertisement for The Days of Auld Lang Syne by Ian MacLaren; an older man wearing a tam o' shanter hat, coat, and high boots sits on a rock up on a hill holding a walking stick while looking down at a small cluster of buildings below; thistle flower at top right.

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Anniversary

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Image of a stork in flight wearing a top hat and carrying an orange in a diaper sling.

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Cock-Robin Brand

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Image of a robin wearing a tuxedo with top hat, cane and monacle; wrapped Sunkist orange logo at lower right.

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This is to certify that Charles M. Tainter has served as a Fireman in the city of Buffalo

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Image of a firefighter's exempt membership certificate from the City of Buffalo made out in manuscript for Charles M. Tainter (presumably Charles M. Taintor) dated February 23, 1857, and signed by Mayor Frederick P. Stevens and City Clerk William H. Albro, with a top center vignette of a fireman standing in the center of a town square in Buffalo, New York, next to a woman and child, a man dressed in a costume similar to that of a Roman soldier with a robe, spear, sandals, and hat, and a kneeling woman writing a document that begins "Certificate of Disch[arge]", with firefighting equipment in the foreground including a hose, ladder, hat, rope, and speaking trumpet, and buildings, a statue, fire hydrant, lighthouse, steamboat, ship masts, and the shores of Lake Erie in the background and a flying angel with wings and a trumpet at top center obscuring a banner that reads "Buffalo Fire Department."; the certificate has a blue embossed seal of the City of Buffalo and a vignette at bottom center of firefighting equipment including preventers, censers, and ax.

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[Blackface performer squirted with water]

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Image of a blackface performer wearing a top hat and coat and holding an umbrella getting squirted in the face with water by a white man in a yard between two houses with a bridge and a hand-operated water pump in the background; image comprised of white lines on blue background.

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Loie Fuller

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